Meet Peter Bonaker, PhD

I thrive when I am teaching in most any capacity. Teaching has been the touchstone of my life, beginning when I was 13 years old teaching swimming lessons to fellow boy scouts all the way through to a 10 year stint as an adjunct professor with the University of Denver, touching all levels in public education in between. Now, working with and teaching healers, healing the healers, teaching to would-be healers is of the highest calling in both the field of education as well as within the shamanic field. This teaching allows me to be both humble as well as deeply honored. When the healing process is taking place at the mythic level, the soul’s level, it is profound to hold an individual in sacred space while they do their work. As healers, we facilitate the process of healing, yet it is always the individual client who is doing the work. As shamans, we work in service and always, only when we have permission.

Our reality today requires us to understand the urgent necessity of changing our ways. Our pacha mama (mother earth) is weeping over our neglect and the disrespect offered to her over the Industrial and now Information Age. We are being called on to show-up, in a way unprecedented from all known pasts. I am pleased to present myself in this format. The work within and of this realm is what I believe will save our world. Remembering what the social anthropologist Margaret Mead said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

Please join with me in celebrating our world for all that it is and can be. Join to lift the human spirit one soul at a time if necessary, to find the higher calling for each of us.

Perhaps not philosophical in nature, a basic understanding is that the shaman holds safe, sacred space for the client to do their work. At the end of the day, it is always the client that has done their work, not the other way around. The shaman does, in fact, provide facilitation for the client’s effort. The successful interaction between shaman and client is finding the right moment in time and the right practitioner / client combination.

Philosophically, Peter holds a very strong conviction that the work is not magic, rather it is the practitioner listening closely to their client in order to be guided in the eventual session work. The shaman sees the unseeable, speaks the unspeakable and knows the unknowable.

Peter honors the concept of paying forward, in such a way that those who are able, pay the established fee with an understanding that they may be supporting those less able to pay. Some degree of indigence is often manifested for those individuals suffering from the more severe forms of intrusion by unwelcome energetic forms. Regarding all manner of treatment some form of reciprocity in important and necessary.

Intention is also of great importance for successful shamanic treatment. Simply stated, if one believes the treatment will work, typically it will. The reverse is also true in that if the client is doubting of the work, it often will not be successful. The treatment of any individual is greatly enhanced by focusing on the ‘healed state’ for the individual, their concept of what their life looks like without the intrusion of the energetic forces that encumber many of the clients seeking treatment

Philosophically, it is a deep belief that the light is much stronger that the dark. It is understanding that the dark often has a very loud voice or energy. When we 1) do our work and 2) work from our heart, that we are most profoundly protected. At this juncture in our global scale of time … it appears to me that the Devine Masculine is meeting up with the Devine Feminine. We each hold both within ourselves, and it is this meeting at a much higher level that we are faced with embracing to its fullest. Finally, the Devine Feminine is emerging to defeat the ungracious and often ugly masculine most commonly expressed through war and violent action.

This is the most magnificent time to be here and alive embracing all that is in front of us as a people. The pandemic has caused the world to uniformly confront the same issue at the same time on the same playing field. We are one people on this planet earth and thus, it is the ‘We’ that must confront our issues as one. Sounds nearly impossible, yet I believe in my heart of hearts that it is quite possible when we embrace our global oneness and reach for inspired leadership. We must have the will to know and embrace unconditional love within our hearts, even when it is most challenging.